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Monday, April 16, 2007

C. Delores Tucker, Political Pioneer and Rap Music Critic, Dead at 78

"She was derided for years after launching her campaign in the mid-1990s. She brought a lawsuit against the estate of Tupac Shakur for degrading lyrics she claimed the late rapper had directed at her, earning her further ridicule.

"Press reports said Tucker’s suit claimed Shakur’s statements disrupted her sex life, a charge she protested, and then later sued to squash.

"The furor distorted both her intent and her contributions for a younger generation that knew her simply as 'that lady in the turban,' said E. Faye Williams, who first met Tucker as a Howard University law student. Williams went on to serve as general counsel for the National Congress of Black Women and had been filling the role of interim chair during Tucker’s illness.

“'People misunderstood what she was doing with the rap singers,' Williams told BlackAmericaWeb.com. 'She never hated these young people. She just wanted to make sure thatyoung people respected themselves and others, not perform songs that were demeaning, especially toward women.'"

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Booker T. Washington said:

"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."